COMMUNICATIONS

Network Management

Tavve announced ZoneRanger 1.2, the newest version of its network management appliance. New features include an enhanced user interface and a graphical Ranger Gateway viewer, as well as capabilities that let users forward a Syslog directly as syslog messages and that let ZoneRanger act as a true Syslog Relay host.
www.tavve.com/dynamic.asp?id=21

Telephony

Leadtek announced a series of VoIP products, centering around the BVP8882, a VoIP videophone with an integrated 5-inch TFT LCD screen and CCD camera. Capable of operating in either H.323 or SIP communication protocols, the BVP8882 also features a built-in USB port, Wi-Fi dongle, memory storage device, and keyboard. The BVP8759 is a set-top box videophone with a CCD camera, external microphone, and an infrared remote. Like the BVP8882, the BVP8759 includes a USB port. The Leadtek BVA8055 is a broadband VoIP adapter that users can connect standard telephones to, making it ideal for SOHO users.
www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/company/press_1.asp?id=184

Patton Electronics announced its latest series of routers with integrated QoS. The IPLink Series of VPN routers was designed as a cost-efficient solution for secure communication, while still allowing high-priority throughput for critical data. The 2800 Series IPLink routers combine features such as QoS profiles, prioritized traffic, and other safety features for private communications. Other enhancements in the 2800 series include IPSec Strong Encryption for antireplay and confidentiality, ACL (access control lists) to configure firewalls, and DoS protection.
commerce.patton.com/newsrelease.asp?id=799

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Components

Advantech has announced the IPC-7143, an ATX-compatible chassis that has mobile SATA HDD trays, as well as a bottom-accessible I/O interface. The IPC-7143 can hold a variety of storage devices, including a slim-style CD-ROM drive, two SATA drives, and two IDE drives. Because the I/O interface is accessible through the bottom of the chassis, an area for maintenance in the rear of the system is unnecessary. The IPC-7143’s exterior has a hinged bracket that holds the power supply. This design makes it easier to replace components, including the PSU, CPU, and memory. The IPC-7143 costs $300.

Maxim introduced the MAX1215, a 12-bit, 250Msps (Megasamples per second) analog-to-digital converter. The MAX1215 features a signal-to-noise ratio of 66dB at 10MHz and manages to deviate only 2dB with tones up to 300MHz. The MAX1215 chip uses 1.8V of power and is designed for either differential or single-ended operation. The MAX1215 chip retails for $47.50 in 1,000-unit quantities.
www.maxim-ic.com/view_press_release.cfm/release_id/1130

Mobile

Electrovaya’s new Scribbler SC 3000 boasts a nine-hour battery life, an integrated biometric fingerprint recognition device, and support for 802.11a/b/g wireless networking. Electrovaya is targeting the Tablet PC at the education, government, health care, and sales industries. The Scribbler SC 3000 runs on a 1.5GHz Intel CPU and Centrino technology, which includes the IntelPRO/Wireless 2915ABG (802.11a/b/g) network connection .

Motion Computings’ new LS800 Tablet PC is roughly the size of a paperback book. It includes an 8.4-inch SVGA display and weighs 2.2 pounds. The unit includes a 1.8-inch hard drive that’s able to withstand twice the shock of a conventional 2.5-inch hard drive. Despite its small size, the 60GB hard drive, Intel Pentium M Ultra Low Voltage 753, 915GMS chipset, and 512MB of DDR2 memory means the LS800 is capable of running Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and standard Windows applications. The LS800 also includes a thumb reader that lets you secure and encrypt personal data on your hard drive. The LS800 starts at $1,899.
www.motioncomputing.com/about/news/press_release_070705.asp

Monitor

Formac Electronic is targeting creative professionals with the Gallery Platinum LCD monitor, which is available in two sizes: 19 inches and 20.1 inches (viewable screen area). The monitor boasts an 8ms gray-to-gray response time and a contrast ratio of 800:1. It has an SXGA resolution of 1,280 x 1,024 and includes Formac’s ColorProof VA TFT With AllRound technology. The monitor supports PCs and Macs and has two USB ports. Formac offers a one-year warranty with the monitor and also offers an optional three-year warranty that includes a zero-dead-pixel guarantee for $99. The 19-inch version costs $499, and the 20.1-inch costs $699.
www.formac.us/files/press_releases/Formac_gallery_PL.pdf

Printer

Canon released three new enterprise color multifunction systems. The image-RUNNER C2620 is designed for high-quality, light-production color and offers up to 26ppm in both color and black and white. The imageRUNNER C3170U and C3170i are fully Internet-ready and can manage up to 31ppm in black and white and 7ppm in color. The imageRUNNER C2620 is currently available for $9,990. Canon’s imageRUNNER C3170U, with 512MB of memory, is available for $8,900, while the C3170i system, with 1GB, retails for $10,500.
www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20050706_multifunction.html

Server

Dell’s PowerEdge 1855 blade servers can now take advantage of the two McDATA 4314 Fibre Channel switches located in the Dell Modular Server Enclosure. In addition to McDATA 4314 connectors, the PowerEdge 1855 server also supports Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand connectors. PowerEdge 1855 servers with McDATA 4314 connectors start at $8,999.
www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/pressoffice/en/2004/2005_07_05_rr_000?c=us&l=en&s=corp

Storage

JMR Electronics announced its ORCA and Fortra families of SATA storage systems will be bundled with Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K500 SATA hard drives, making the combination the first 4U system to offer 21TB storage and the first 3U system to hold 8TB. Geared toward primary, secondary, disk-to-disk backup, archival storage, and disaster recovery, JMR’s SATA storage products for the VAR channel are fully integrated turnkey interoperable solutions. According to JMR, its bundled ORCA product is the densest SATA storage product on the market. With additional arrays, JMR claims users can scale to over half a petabyte in one system.
www.jmr.com/corporate/releases/050706.html

Promise has announced six new 3Gbps SATA RAID storage systems in its VTrak M-Class line. The VTrak M200f, M300f, and M500f are dual-host Fibre Channel to 3Gbps SATA arrays, while the M200i, M300i, and M500i substitute iSCSI for FC. Pricing starts at $4,199.
www.promise.com

StorageQuest has combined its backup software with Primera Technology’s Bravo II and BravoPro DVD/CD duplicators to offer compliant backup and disaster recovery for SMEs. The new product line is called the Reflector Network Backup & Archive family. The Reflectors use wizards to help sysadmins set up backup procedures with smart compression and dataset spanning for networked user and server content. A Reflector system can also print a full-color label on suitable discs for instant archivability.
www.prweb.com/releases/2005/7/prweb256954.htm

Texas Memory Systems claims that its new RamSan-400 solid state disk is the first to come with 4Gb Fibre Channel interfaces. The new 3U device’s 500,000 random I/Ops and 3GBps random file transfer rates make it ideal for MRP, OLAP, OLTP, and other data-intensive applications, the company says. The high-availability RamSan-400 comes in capacities of 32GB to 128GB.
www.texmemsys.com

Workstation

Axiomtek announced the heavy-duty Human Machine Interface PANEL1170-800 computer, which is designed for use in a variety of environments. The PANEL1170-800 computer features a 17-inch SXGA LCD monitor and is built around Intel’s 852GM chipset, which accepts Pentium 4 processors with Hyper-Threading. The device also supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations between SATA hard drives. Axiomtek also offers the unit with an optional slim CD-ROM drive.
www.axiomtek.com/company/news-details.php?id=62

SOFTWARE

Data Communications

AdventNet has introduced the WiFi Manager 4 system of network management for wireless environments with fewer than 10 access points. It includes features such as autodiscovery, continuous network monitoring, automated alerts, centralized configuration tools, firmware maintenance, and reporting tools. AdventNet supports products from D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, Cisco, Symbol, Proxim, 3Com, Avaya, HP, Dell, and Nomadix, among others. In addition to the new 10-access-point edition, WiFi Manager is also still available in editions for 50, 100, 500, or unlimited access points.

Security

Acronis has introduced Acronis Privacy Expert 8.0 Corporate, which provides security to both workstations and servers. It has a centralized management console, agent deployment to systems on the network, and support for running security applications on remote systems. The latest version of Acronis Privacy Expert is designed to provide protection from common threats, such as identity theft and fraud. Acronis Privacy Expert 8.0 Corporate brings spyware protection and other features from Acronis’ consumer software to a corporate environment. A spyware shield and automatic spyware definition updates help prevent malicious activity.

Global Technology Associates’ new firewall operating system GB-OS version 3.7 is coming preinstalled on newly shipped versions of all the company’s products, including the GB-2000, GB-2000e, GB-750, GB-500, GB-250, and GB-250e. The new OS also forms the core of GTA’s software firewall GB-Ware. The OS includes the ability to share loads between multiple gateways, both physical and virtual, enhanced gateway failover, and policy-based routing capability. The company also introduced a new mobile VPN client. Designed for use with GTA’s GB-OS firewalls and VPN products, the Mobile VPN Client features a configuration wizard which allows users to implement USB Drive and hidden modes on the VPN client. GTA firewall users can use the Mobile VPN client to enable support for NAT-T. Included with all new GTA firewalls, current GTA customers who upgrade to GB-OS 3.7 will be able to download the GTA Mobile VPN Client software from GTA’s Online Support Center. GTA added that new OEM licensing partner TheGreenBow will also offer the Mobile VPN Client.
www.gta.com/news/release/?n=2005-07-05.html
www.gta.com/news/release/?n=2005-06-30_2.html

Senforce Technologies announced Senforce Wi-Fi Security, a security application designed to safeguard systems from wireless computing vulnerabilities, hackers, and unwitting employees. Senforce says this endpoint security program protects systems across existing Wi-Fi standards and the forthcoming 802.11n standard.
www.senforce.com/pressrelease/pr-senforce-wifi-security.htm

Trend Micro recently announced a number of new enhancements for its environments. These enhancements include ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino, PortalProtect for Microsoft SharePoint, and InterScan Messaging Security Suite. These products serve as answers to security risks found in server-based applications. They are designed to minimize the impact of malicious code, spam, and other attacks by inappropriate content. For instance, ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange v7.0 features advanced content filtering technology to get rid of spam while allowing email traffic to flow uninterrupted. All of the products are currently available on a per-user basis. Prices range from $11.39 per user for the Spam Prevention Solution to $21.20 per user for ScanMail for Lotus Domino.
www.trendmicro.com/en/about/news/pr/archive/2005/pr070505.htm

Systems Management

Citrix Systems announced Citrix Access Essentials, bringing secure remote access and efficient centralized management of information resources to SMBs. Using Citrix Access Essentials, organizations of up to 75 Microsoft Windows users can securely connect to centralized information. Citrix Access Essentials works with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for client/server applications, files, and internal Web sites and lets system administrators control who gets what and when. By combining technologies from Citrix and Microsoft, Citrix Access Essentials lets users run programs from a central and secure location while appearing to run them on their local machine. This enables fast response times, regardless of the user’s true location. Citrix Access Essentials is available exclusively through authorized Citrix Solution Advisors in five-user packs through the Citrix easy licensing program.
www.citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=21380

MKS announced the release of its newest version of the MKS Toolkit. Version 9.0 is designed to improve productivity on both 32- and 64-bit Windows OSes. It is a cross-platform kit that will work not only with Windows but also with Unix/Linux based systems. MKS Toolkit 9.0 now features multibyte character support, which will allow users to manipulate data in non-ASCII formats. Also included in the kit is an enhanced secure visual file manipulator which allows you to drag and drop files and directories and edit permissions in Unix, Linux, and Windows environments. The MKS Toolkit 9.0 starts at $359.
www.mks.com/press/index.jsp?action=readarticle&article_id=11720

SERVICES

Power Management

Emerson Network Power announced the Emerson Liebert Availability Assessment service that will help business customers develop more effective strategies in mitigating costly downtime associated with power interruptions. This service helps businesses identify where their IT systems are vulnerable to failures from power loss or overheating. Emerson Network Power has availability experts who provide analysis and recommendations for ways to integrate reliable power and cooling solutions to help systems stay up and running. This assessment service was developed with support from Network Frontiers and input from IT, facilities, and business continuity professionals worldwide. Customers also receive a business impact analysis of their company’s current IT network power availability though generation of metrics such as risk scores, downtime tolerance, and disruption costs.
www.liebert.com/bottom_news2.asp?id=2126